Do you use Microsoft Window’s Bitlocker? TrueCrypt? DMCrypt? Or whatever the hell Apple calls their disk encryption?
If you do. Here’s something for you to think about. That encryption key is more vulnerable than you probably realize. It’s always going to be sitting somewhere in your ram while you’re logged onto your system. If you put your machine to sleep, it’s going to be there. Even if you completely power off your laptop/computer, it will still be sitting in that ram chip for at least a little while.
This video demonstrates an attack against Bitlocker:
Want to feel safe again?
Always shutdown your computer. Not sleep,hibernate, or any other lowpower state.
Find a program to scramble your ram on shutdown.
Don’t use liquid nitrogen to cool your ram.
Reevaluate your encryption needs, because most likely you don’t need to encrypt the WHOLE disk. If you’re using linux; look into setting up encryption per user per their home folder.
The number of the day is 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
Digg got told by HD DVD to remove a story about hd-dvd’s processing key from doom9’s forums and now the internet’s basically pissed at them for choosing a sponsor over their users. Digg users are revolting by digging only stories with the key to the front page of digg.
There’s t-shirts, songs, videos, domains, and lots of other creative things containing the key now. ThePirateBay is embracing the numbers.
I’ll wait til andy watches the next episode of diggnation and see if they say anything about it.
They want to give this guy 60 years in prison for doing nothing really.. He didn’t break anything. I love how the reporter tries to act like he knows something about what he’s talking about, but doesn’t really.
“ In 2002, Gary McKinnon was arrested by the UK’s national high-tech crime unit, after hacking into NASA, and the US military. He says he spent two years looking for photographic evidence of alien spacecraft and advanced power technology. America now wants him on trial, and if tried there he could face 60 years behind bars. Gary’s been banned from using the Internet. We asked for his side of the story ahead of his extradition hearing on Wednesday,”
* plugin ready for WordPress 2.1! * removed video object in feed, just a link instead
* added video portal: brightcove, aniBOOM
* added support for local media files like mov, avi, mpg, flv, swf
I guess videos showed up in feeds up until version 3.0. I started editing the embedded-video.php file and around line 132 is where my modifications start.
Lines 132 to 159. All I did was comment out the if/else statement. //if ( !is_feed() ) {
switch ($match[1]) {
case “youtube”: $output .= YOUTUBE_TARGET; break;
case “google”: $output .= GOOGLE_TARGET; break;
case “myvideo”: $output .= MYVIDEO_TARGET; break;
case “clipfish”: $output .= CLIPFISH_TARGET; break;
case “sevenload”: $output .= SEVENLOAD_TARGET; break;
case “revver”: $output .= REVVER_TARGET; break;
case “metacafe”: $output .= METACAFE_TARGET; break;
case “yahoo”: $output .= YAHOO_TARGET; break;
case “ifilm”: $output .= IFILM_TARGET; break;
case “myspace”: $output .= MYSPACE_TARGET; break;
case “brightcove”: $output .= BRIGHTCOVE_TARGET; break;
case “aniboom”: $output .= ANIBOOM_TARGET; break;
case “vimeo”: $output .= VIMEO_TARGET; break;
case “guba”: $output .= GUBA_TARGET; break;
case “dailymotion”: $output .= DAILYMOTION_TARGET; $match[3] = “nolink”; break;
case “garagetv”: $output .= GARAGE_TARGET; $match[3] = “nolink”; break;
case “local”:
if (preg_match(”%([[:print:]]+).(mov|qt)$%”, $match[2])) { $output .= QUICKTIME_TARGET; break; }
elseif (preg_match(”%([[:print:]]+).(wmv|mpg|mpeg|mpe|asf|asx|wax|wmv|wmx|avi)$%”, $match[2])) { $output .= VIDEO_TARGET; break; }
elseif (preg_match(”%([[:print:]]+).(swf|flv)$%”, $match[2])) { $output .= FLASHPLAYER_TARGET; break; }
default: break;
}
//} else {
// if a feed, overwrite nolink option
//$match[3] = “Link”;
//}
And I added this:
//add generic <noembed> so that feed readers that dont support it won't get confused
$output .= "<noembed>--There's a video here that you can't see. You should check out the blog post and watch it.--</noembed>";
Now. With any luck, video’s will start showing up in feeds. If the plugin doesn’t get updated anytime soon, I’ll extend it and just have it post a thumbnail of the video or something with a link to the post.
“I’ve put together this page to document a one-wheeled balancing scooter / skateboard that I’ve just finished. It’s the culmination of several iterations over the last few years, and definitely my favourite.
It’s very similar to a snowboard to ride, requiring no user input other than the movement of your body mass. Leaning forwards and backwards controls the velocity and moving your weight from heal to toe controls the turn radius. It’s easy and very intuitive to ride.”
I want one of these things; it looks pretty fun. Here’s a couple pictures and a video of it in action.
